charkhash e pooch

my quietness has a number of naked selves

[savethelifeofmychild]

once i read everything on earth then i think ill be prepared to write

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[metamorphesque]

—  Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

[mityenka]

the cruel choice between pdf (free) vs physical copy (annotatable)

[glowingghosty]

and pdf (searchable) vs physical copy (read on couch away from screens)

[oneheadtoanother]

[apricops]

but I wanna get rewarded for consistent long term effort nooooow

[kafk-a]

June Jordan, ‘Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.’

[pollyj]

“In 1930, Japanese printmaker Yoshida Hiroshi spent several months travelling in South Asia. After his return to Japan, he produced a series of 32 woodblock prints inspired by his travels which he then used to make a series of postcards.”

[veronicastpierre]

Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society’s double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible, who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women, they can become women much earlier – and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.

— Susan Sontag, from “The Double Standard of Aging”

[clementinevonradics]

“a girl is told she is nothing. she hums into the soft dark - just wait, till i come back & eat you bare. till your heart cries blue. till your bones are fear”

— Scherezade Siobhan, log #1 (Published in The Undertow Review)

[weltenwellen]

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Summer's Green Waters”, Sin

[violentwavesofemotion]

“And indeed, just think: in many ways, body and soul, I have been more a battlefield than a human being.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Peter Gast (via violentwavesofemotion)

[fawnaura]

Ada Limón, from The Carrying; “Sometimes I think my body leaves a shape in the air”

[thenib]

Gemma Correll.

[poesizing]

intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

[h-isforhome-deactivated20261708]

bro not to start again on names but u ever think abt how some names have been used for centuries, millenniums even...like how many times has the earth heard a mother calling, 'alexander!'...how many times have the stars caught a lover whispering, 'freyja'...how many times has the ground we've walked on and continue to walk on felt vibrations of a friend excitedly yelling, 'mary!'

[sareerekhama]

every day I am floored by the fantastic coincidence of having met you at all, and the incredible privilege of loving and being loved by you